As feared the game has gotten too easy too soon.

Are you playing sim mode? Would that not be the closest to a 'true golfing experience'? 

Anything lower than sim is pretty easy, but that is why sim exists. 

I agree with pretty much all of this. The rough and bunkers really need to be harder to deal with. I think that’s the single biggest issue I have with the game.

it does appear the game has become too easy for some. In the unlimited try 4 hole Riviera tournament today there were several guys who were 8 under which seems impossible to me

@theycagednonYes... I have a custom setting that is harder than SIM, but I do leave the grids on as a 2D screen just doesn't give enough detail. And I do play with the zoom on, but would have preferred that there was an option to limit it to 40 yards around the ball.

Otherwise... all meter data is disabled, and meters are off. Wish we could also remove the aiming reticule, but again that option is also not available.

I just started a career, and shot -8 at PGA West on the first round but the game corrupted. Week 2 also had corrupted data. But after rebuilding the database on my PS5 I shot -11 on round 1 at the Pebble Beach ProAm.

I totally agree, that the rough and bunker penalties must be adjusted (made harsher) in this game. Currently they have almost no impact on the shots.

This makes the recovery skill (especially for approach shots) totally irrelevant.

Flop and Pick shot are really overpowered and need to be nerfed as well.

Yesterday I played a flop shot that hit the flag stick and left me with a 20 foot putt! Generally I agree that getting up and down from a hazard by the green is generally not very challenging even to someone with my average skill level.

The skill point and spec systems do I suppose give a way to choose to make the game harder in that you can reduce how many you use. Not the real point I know but it is an option.

Played  golf games for 30 years. Started with Actua golf on the PlayStation lol. 

I must firstly say, I have both EA pga, and 2k23. I have no preference for any company, but I do have a real urge to play the best golf game. 

for me personally that will always come down to a few things. Bells and whistles are amazing, graphics are good, of course they are. And as far as that, ea golf looks superb! It really does. The presentation is nice etc. it could do with 60FPS, but it’s not the worst at 30FPS.

now, as I said… it will always come down to a few points….

I always want to feel like it’s possible for me to make mistakes. Like I can find myself in trouble, and I can be punished. 

with 2k, I’m only playing on the pro swing, and if I don’t fully concentrate, and try, and even if I do, I can find rough, bunkers, water, even out of bounds. 

with ea, that isn’t the case. I have it set to the hardest swing difficulty, and find big fairway after fairway and green after green is pretty much a given. 

the game has literally become…. A quick power drive without thinking….. a wedge into every green pretty much and then it all boils down to… how close can I make sure my putt is. Then it’s either a birdie or par. 

Now I appreciate there’s simulation players out there, and their response would be, well you haven’t tried simulation?

no I haven’t, but the swing difficulty will be the same. 

another big big issue is the fact that there is barely any penalty for hazards. 

hazards…. By name should be hazardous!

with 2k, the rough can be very penal. And because of the percentages it throws up, dailing a shot in from hazards can be very tricky. 

the pick shot from bunkers is crazily overpowered. I have a bronze pick shot and have even seen me deliberately going for a bunker if I was in trouble, or even if I thought I couldn’t hold a green etc. 

the flop is another one. Just a complete get out of jail card. 

I have both games, and I really enjoy both games.

I have literally been living on ea pga now for two weeks. Sometimes 8 hours a day or more. 

But now as OP alluded to…. It’s just to easy a game. and not in the sense that I’m amazing and can smash every daily tournament etc. 

In the sense that even on the hardest swing difficulty…. Missing a fairway or a green is a complete shock. 

going back on 2k this morning…. The sense of dread when driving was suddenly their again. 

being a little off and pushing an approach wide was there. 

m rough was very penal at times, and bunkers…. Although there’s a splash shot, it’s still nothing close to the pick shot. 

I’ll go back to ea and I’ll enjoy it, but for me, 2k plays the better golf, and that’s simply because there’s no ease to it. Even if I got into a rhythm and made good swing after good swing, all it takes is a slight lapse and suddenly you’ve hooked it into the sea or the trees. 

id love to see ea add another difficulty or 2, but I don’t see it happening. 

I get this was long, my apologies,and I hope just one person with both games can see where I’m coming from. 

you can have all the extras, graphics, etc…. But unless the gameplay grabs you, and challenges you…. Pretty soon you’ll be going through the motions and the novelty of the game being good and new will wear off. 

I agree with the rough and bunkers...I actually took my stats down on recovery to 1 ..Still too easy to get out of lol 

Absolutely.. never seen the scenario in this game yet when you hit a ball into the heavy rough and you can only hack it out about 40 or 50 yards. The game either just plonks the ball out of the heavy rough and gives you a nice lie or hits you with an out of bounds message without any warning that there was an out of bounds border there anyway.